Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
Bugs, Viruses, Backups, and prevedvsem123.cn
Updated: A Note Before You Read On
I don’t know the source of this virus currently. All I know is that everyone I have talked to so far that has this issue has been on a Layered Tech box, either directly, in the case of Woopra or through resellers. I have not found any other information of it effecting other hosting providers yet.
But I am only stating what I know to be true and trying to help people stop it on their own because god knows that these support desks are going to have their hands fulls.
How My Blog Got Hacked
About a week ago, Digital Products Review, a blog where I am slowly breaking down how I make money through Clickbank, got hacked by someone from Georgia. Not the state, the country. It seems to be a trend. The guy must have collected a bunch of sites that he could get into and then hit them all at once. I have been checking over the last week and there is never a shortage of new blogs, forums, and other sites that this guy hit.
How to Move WordPress Quickly
You can take this tutorial with a grain of salt. I have always thought that the "right" way to do things takes a little bit too long. But then again, I end up making a lot of mistakes. So I guess I could say I have learned a lot. But this move went without a hitch once I discovered everything that needed done.
First, install WordPress on your new server. You can usually do this through Fantastico if you have cPanel. But check the version of WordPress that you are installing. For some reason, my Fantasico installation showed an older version of WordPress, even though I updated it before I started this. So I had to upload and install it manually.
The Correct 301 Redirect to a New Domain
I have found a few different example on the web. The first one I used added a big, long, unnecessary query string to the url. The following one works without a hitch. Just change the .htaccess file in the main folder of your site to one containing this text. Of course, replace yournewdomain.com to the one you are redirecting to.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]Tags: 301 redirect, .htaccess
Installing Apache on Vista
This really sucked. No one gives the complete information anywhere, so I thought I would explain step by step what I went through to install Apache 2.2 on Centrino Duo Laptop running Windows Vista Business. Just a testing server, to try sites before I upload them live. This task went pretty simply on Windows XP Home.
I started out by downloading Apache. I figured what the heck, run the installation program. After all, that’s what I wanted to do, install Apache and most installation applications work. Its the answer I was looking for, but not quite the answer I got.
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